Lactucarium may deliver similar effects as opium — but with fewer side effects. In fact, wild lettuce is often referred to as “opium lettuce” due to its purported pain-relieving qualities.

Do you know where the wild lettuce grows ... medicines for millennia to calm and to soothe (dried, it is known as lettuce opium). And then there are Edward Lear’s Old Guinea Pigs, who caution ...